Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Monologue Mania Day # 1238 Summing it Up (for Osculation) by Janet S. Tiger (c) July 5, 2017

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Monologue Mania Day # 1238 Summing it Up (for Osculation) by Janet S. Tiger (c) July 5, 2017  

This is actually going to be part of another scene (below), but I think it will stand on its own.  

                                 Summing it Up    (c)
                                        by Janet S. Tiger  (c) 2017 all rights reserved 
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ARIANA -  So, maybe you're a good teacher - or maybe, I knew more than I let on?  Or maybe there's something about numbers you don't quite get yet......so maybe, I'll SUM it up for you.  Get it?  Sum it up?    The the basis of the whole thing is....One plus one.....

        (She goes to the board and starts to put up the numbers)

 You love what infinity means, the beauty of adding one to anything and there never being an end....but all things end on this planet.....infinity is never the issue.........but... the reality is.....sometimes, the sum of the parts......

       (She draws slowly now - the arrow symbol)

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole......

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And here's where it will go -

Monologue Mania Day # 1150 Osculation (last scene continued) by Janet S. Tiger (c) April 7, 2017                   
                                                     Osculation (for last scene continued)
                                 A monologue by Janet S. Tiger   © all rights reserved 2017
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(to understand this, please read yesterday's Day #1150 first)
ISAAC -  So everything....done for show.....

ARIANA -  Not everything.....you asked me about whether I ever told the truth.....the truth is a fluid thing....here's some......when I was about ten, I was in an airport, heading out to visit my grandparents.  My folks were sitting, talking to some other old hippies they'd met....so, I was just hanging out.....and this man came walking past, and I took a  look at him and I knew something was wrong.....and he looked around and then he ran into a bathroom.  I watched and a few moments later, some police ran up, with this one guy in a suit.

And I knew, just like I knew about the guy, I knew the guy in the suit was someone important.....so I went over to the guy in the suit and said 'he went in there' and I pointed at the bathroom.

They went in, and a couple minutes later, out they come, with the guy, in handcuffs, and the suit guy comes over to me, and he says, 'thank you' - and he gave me a card and told me, if I ever needed help, give a call.  And that's when I started writing the letters.  And after a few years, I got letters back, and then calls, and then.......the man in the suit came to visit me one day....in the library.....and told me about Carson.  How dangerous what he was doing was.....not just for schools, but for everyone.....so I made friends with a kid at my old school, got him to change my grades.  Then I got 'caught' but I didn't rat him out, so he was a good contact.  And I transferred here, got into the decathalon, and made friends with him.....

ISAAC -  Friends?

ARIANA -  Can I help it if smart guys like me?  Anyhow, I had to go along, to get the proof.....I'm sorry ....if...it hurt you.

         (Isaac looks at a card in his hand.)

ISAAC-  Agent Harrison....

ARIANA -  Not the same guy as my suit, but they know each other.....

ISAAC -  Like one big strange family...

ARIANA -  Something like that.....  when I graduate, I get to join that family....

ISAAC -  So you're not going to Stanford....

ARIANA -  Not really.....but I never was.....

ISAAC -  Amazing!  And I did trust you...

          (She looks at him, shakes her head)

ISAAC - I mean .....except for not trusting you....

ARIANA -  But I trust you....not to tell this....

ISAAC -  And if I did?  Would I disappear?

ARIANA -  Don't be silly.....you'll never tell......that's why I can tell you.....I'm a good judge of character.....something that can't be taught actually......maybe enhanced, but it's something you're born with....like math, I guess....

ISAAC -  Character.  Interesting word.  So none of what happened today is gonna be public?

ARIANA - Why would it have to be?  

ISAAC -  What happens to your other boyfriend, Carson?  Does he go to jail for this?  I mean, hacking the SAT and ACT, that's pretty radical stuff.

ARIANA -  He's smart enough to get into bigger stuff than tests......so, I doubt if jail is in his future...

ISAAC -  (Horrified, stunned)  Wait a minute, so, he's gonna work for........

ARIANA -  Our side?  Us?  I hope so.  That's what this game is all about.  It's much more than winning some high school academic league decathalon!  How did you think they got Werner von Braun to make rockets for us?  By offering some fresh socks after the war?  Some ice cream?  For a smart guy.....

ISAAC -  Maybe I'm not so smart....

ARIANA -  You said it......the world is a very big place, and the future is in computers, and in people who know and understand them, what they can do, what they can't.......Carson might be just good enough to stop a war, or win one....who knows?  I'm not the judge.

ISAAC -  So, exactly...how far would you go to ....do your job?

ARIANA -  (Thinking)  I don't know.....I guess I'm gonna find out......

            (She turns to leave, stops, looks back)

ARIANA -  You said none of this would be public....but there is one thing....the press will want to interview us because the fact is...... we won.  

ISAAC -  And you didn't cheat.....so....how?

ARIANA -  So, maybe you're a good teacher - or maybe, I knew more than I let on?  Or maybe there's something about numbers you don't quite get yet......so maybe, I'll SUM it up for you.  Get it?  Sum it up?    The the basis of the whole thing is....One plus one.....

        (She goes to the board and starts to put up the numbers)

 You love what infinity means, the beauty of adding one to anything and there never being an end....but all things end on this planet.....infinity is never the issue.........but... the reality is.....sometimes, the sum of the parts......

       (She draws slowly now - the arrow symbol)

The sum of the parts is greater than the whole......

       (He looks at the board, realizes that she is saying goodbye)

ARIANA -  One thing, Isaac, when you speak of this one day, and you will, maybe in guarded terms, but you will, please know ......I did like learning from you......and of all the things you taught me.....my favorite was.....can you guess?

          (She walks over quickly and kisses him, then pulls away just as quickly)

ARIANA -  Osculation!

          (She leaves as he watches her go.  Then he puts on a jacket, some glasses, he is older, and he goes to the chalkboard and starts to make some notes......)

ISAAC -  And this my dear students, is one you may be able to remember with a simple pnemonic device......

           (He draws two curves as the lights start to dim)

ISAAC -  There is a term in geometry that describes the place where two curves or surfaces come into contact, or where their common tangent exists. It's almost as if the two curved lines are...... kissing. The term is.....osculation.....

          (Spotlight on the curved lines, then blackout.  The end.)
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